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On the chance that this is true (I have no reason to trust the British government on any surveillance topic), that would mean one of three things: 1. Snowden me
by veqz 11y ago
On the chance that this is true (I have no reason to trust the British government on any surveillance topic), that would mean one of three things:
1. Snowden messed up and chose a bad encryption scheme/key.
2. Russia and China have the ability to break secure encryption schemes.
3. One of the journalists entrusted with the documents messed up with the handling of the keys.
Only number 3 seems a little bit possible, and even then I'm skeptical...
- DanBC 11y agoNumber three isn't that unlikely. Encryption is hard to use and subtle mistakes can ruin the encryption. And some of the mistakes are not that subtle. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10276460/David-Miranda-was-carrying-password-for-secret-files-on-piece-of-paper.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10276460/David-... David Miranda carried USB sticks with emcrypted material through a UK border. He also carried a piece of paper with the password. The UK has abused their anti-terror law so ot was entirely predictable that they would abuse the law to detain and question Miranda.
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- damagednoob 11y ago4. Another contractor with as much access as Snowden defected.